[Tippiechick]

Dani,

My mom does the Core plan. She's a lifetime member who has maintained her goal for 3 years now. She has gone onto the core and says it is OK. She prefers the flex. But, she felt like her body needed a switch for a while...

The key to the Core plan is only eating until you feel satisfied. So, those with food-addictive personalities whose body doesn't seem to send the signal that it is full have trouble on Core. But, it really is a lifestyle change. It is actually quite restrictive even with the 35 flex points. So many things are excluded from the program.

They recently changed a rule on the Core plan, though. Before, you could not a food as core unless it was on the list. So, even if you made a recipe with only core foods, it was not core when you put the ingredients together. It had to be eaten in it's listed form. Now, they have amended that to say that if all ingredients are core, then the food is a core food. If only some ingredients are Core, then you have to figure up the point value for the items that aren't Core.

I love the flex plan. I don't know if I will ever go Core.